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Dealer price made me look around, but I am still trying to prove what actually failed. I've got a water pumpsitting in a FridayParts cart for now, not ordered. I check the thermostat, cap, and radiator flow. My 303.5 is running warmer under sustained digging but stays below the red. The radiator is clean, coolant level is stable, and the water-pump weep hole is dry. The upper hose gets hot while the lower hose stays much cooler than I expected, though I know some temperature drop across the radiator is normal. I don't have a flow number yet, just hose temps and what I can see externally. Before I order a pump, I am going to verify the thermostatopening temperature and check radiator flow. Is an infrared temperature spread across the core useful on these, or should I start with a pressure test and cap test?

Been looking at a few bikes in the ~$2k range for weekend camping trips + light trails (gravel, dirt, forest paths, nothing crazy).

I usually ride loaded too (tent, bag, cooler etc), so I care more about comfort + stability than top speed.

Right now I’m kinda stuck between a few:

Zonveer ZX3 — looks a bit more “power focused”, ppl say it climbs better? not sure how it feels when fully loaded tho

Tuttio Soleil01 — seems like the popular budget pick, lots of ppl ride it, but mixed takes on long rides w/ gear

YOZMA IN10 — looks lighter + more playful, but maybe a bit small if you’re carrying stuff for a full weekend

On paper they’re all kinda close tbh, just different vibes.

I guess my main question is:

does this stuff actually matter in real use (torque / mid drive vs hub etc), or is it mostly just battery + suspension + frame that makes the real difference when you’re loaded?

Anyone here actually used any of these for camping / longer rides?

audio guy here, and i know this sub skews toward mics and boxes, but you all run small gigs solo so figured someone here has been stuck doing both. ive somehow ended up owning lighting too for a run of World Cup fan-zone and watch-party gigs that start this week. budget on most of them doesnt stretch to a separate LD, so im trying to lock one kit i can carry to all of them instead of rebuilding per event.

the gigs flip formats fast. a fan zone might run a live band between matches, then DJ sets during the games on the screen feed, then someone on a mic for sponsors. ive got maybe four positions on a goalpost truss and basically zero changeover time between a band set and a DJ set, so re-hanging fixtures mid-event isnt happening.

what im planning to build around is 6 Betopper BSW200 hybrids. theyre a 200w spot/beam/wash in one yoke, so the idea is one look change on the board takes the same fixtures from textured gobos for the band, to tight beams for the DJ energy, to flat wash for the speaking bits. id run them in the 23 channel mode off the MA2 onPC i already have out for audio, zoom and focus on their own channels so i can pull the beam in tight for the screen replays.

before i commit the whole month to this: for those of you who end up covering both audio and light on smaller festival or fan-zone gigs, what are you carrying for a kit that has to flip band, DJ and speech off one hang? trying to finalize the rig before the opener, so id take any war stories on single-hang setups that held up outdoors.

I run a small online business by myself, and sourcing has always been the part I hate most. Too many tabs, too many supplier pages, and I always end up making some messy spreadsheet just to compare MOQs, shipping, and lead times.

A friend mentioned Accio Work to me, so I tried it last week. I would not say it magically solves everything, but it did make the early research part a lot less annoying. I typed in what I was looking for, and it pulled together supplier options from Alibaba and 1688 much faster than I could do manually.

The part I liked most was seeing prices, shipping estimates, and supplier info side by side instead of jumping between pages. I also tested the supplier message draft feature, which was useful because I usually waste a lot of time rewriting the same questions.

I am still careful with it though. I would not let any tool place orders without checking everything myself, but it seems to require approval before anything important happens, which makes me more comfortable using it.

Still figuring out the rest of the features. Has anyone here used Accio Work for sourcing or supplier research? Curious what parts are actually useful long term.